<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: josiahpeters</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=josiahpeters</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:41:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=josiahpeters" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "The Slow Collapse of MkDocs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course, we just adopted Material for MK Docs about 12 months ago.<p>I’ve been looking at Zensical <a href="https://zensical.org/" rel="nofollow">https://zensical.org/</a> as a replacement, but I couldn’t fully reason why they went off and did their own thing. I wasn’t sure if it was a money grab or what their motivation was.<p>This article provided the context I needed to understand the why. We’re going to definitely give them a shot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:51:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489552</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "OpenClaw is changing my life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve had the same experience with the recent batch of candidates for a Junior Software Engineer position we just filled. Their projects looked impressive on the surface and seemed very promising.<p>Once we got them into a technical screening, most fell apart writing code. Our problem was simple: using your preferred programming language, model a shopping cart object that has the ability to add and remove items from the cart and track the cart total.<p>We were shocked by how incapable most candidates were in writing simple code without their IDEs tab completion capability. We even told them to use whatever resources they normally used.<p>The whole experience left us a little surprised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:58:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939468</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I almost did this after I helped a friend install a mini-split.<p>Having just installed a mini-split in my office shed with a pre/charged unit. I told him it was easy and helped him. We ended up needing to buy an extra long line set to make the distance work, which needed more refrigerant.<p>I called 15 different places and finally found one that could come out and charge the line for under $350. Which was hard to stomach with the whole unit costing only $750 from Amazon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 22:58:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707626</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used Home Designer - <a href="https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/products/home-designer-architectural/" rel="nofollow">https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/products/home-designer-...</a> to draw a house we purchased (built in the 1970s) and the changes we intended to make during a remodel. The person reviewing my permit application was very impressed that I showed up with proper plans and not some kind of sketch done hastily on a napkin.<p>It definitely tries to think about walls, rooms, windows, floors as they are meant to be modeled. You can even get a materials estimate based on the properties of the wall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:18:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429015</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Story points are pointless, measure queues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel personally attacked by this comment. This hits so close to home. I think I have some personal reflection to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982084</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Send short links, get an SMS once read"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do they hate URL shorteners?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:32:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600087</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love this approach. Great work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422384</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Jurassic Systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They’re problem solving smart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:57:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38671135</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38671135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38671135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the additional context.<p>I love HN for little nuggets of explanation like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 16:43:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38321397</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38321397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38321397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Impacts of lack of sleep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Diagnosed ADHD person here. Among my acquaintances I’m known as a person who will accept coffee any time off day when I come visit. I don’t that because I really enjoy the flavor off coffee and it doesn’t seem to affect my sleep.<p>Anecdotally, I’ve had conversations with more than 50 people who say caffeine does not affect them who likely have ADHD or some kind of attention disorder.<p>For example, I was at a gas station this weekend buying coffee during a small road trip. The cashier and I we’re making small talk that it was early and I wanted my morning coffee, they said oh caffeine doesn’t affect me. When I hear something like that I usually ask if them if they have ADHD and they’ll typically respond with a yes.<p>There is definitely bias in my non-scientific survey, I only ask people who make the comment about caffeine not affecting them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:40:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820372</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I watched this: <a href="https://youtu.be/paCyA9ypEOE?si=IESpvZcyUzPeyt0x" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/paCyA9ypEOE?si=IESpvZcyUzPeyt0x</a> video about 10 years ago and it set me on a path to learn blacksmithing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 07:24:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415757</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Are cooking videos making us better cooks?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh no. This describes my desire to make a large following the Gingery Machine shop series.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:25:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386509</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Wet-bulb temperature"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was a great summary of the tech. Your height comment helps explain why my external mix setup didn’t produce as much snow as it did frost. I only had it about 8’ off the ground.<p>This coming winter I may try increasing the height of the mixer and positioning a fan underneath to help push the mix upward to give it more time to bind to the nucleus crystal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359145</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Wet-bulb temperature"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did this exact thing this past winter. I spent about $100 on pipe fittings and purchased an external mixer DIY nozzle set from here: <a href="https://www.snowathome.com/our_products/SG3_e-type_nozzle_kit.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.snowathome.com/our_products/SG3_e-type_nozzle_ki...</a><p>I made snow in my front yard a few times. I also completely covered my tree and car in a blanket of ice a few times too.<p>It was a fun little project to hack on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 05:47:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303923</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Inkscape 1.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does on get involved to help with the UI challenges/improvements?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36858455</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36858455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36858455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It never occurred to me that you could cook bread in the microwave. Thanks for sharing this. I may have to give it a try.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736770</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was this single meeting decision stumbled upon or iterated into or are you following a formalized system like EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) or something similar?<p>I’m curious as to how that came about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36711041</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36711041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36711041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Ask HN: As a startup, what are your must-have sections for a landing page?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also like the Storybrand method and have found it easy to reason with and adopt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257010</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "The silent struggles of workers with ADHD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can relate to this. Spending the better half of the meeting catching people up to you can be exhausting sometimes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:02:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33965710</link><dc:creator>josiahpeters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33965710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33965710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josiahpeters in "Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We just had our third and this comment has tickled my interest. Do you have an example of any studies that indirectly support this?<p>I agree that good sleep is more critical than people realize.</p>
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